Found on the southern coast of Peru, this amphibious creature had a tail and hooves and was the oldest preserved fossil of ...

Early ancestors of the ocean's biggest animals once walked on land. Follow their extraordinary journey from shore to sea. Although whales are expert swimmers and perfectly adapted to life underwater, ...

weak hind legs -- baggage from its evolutionary past -- even though it could not walk on land. None of these animals is necessarily a direct ancestor of the whales we know today; they may be side ...

Before whales became the ocean’s majestic giants that could swallow a whole kiyak, they were land-dwelling creatures that ...

NOVA: When Whales Could Walk Wednesday, April 2 at 9:00 pm In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls ...